Use of Pleural Fluid Digital PCR Analysis to Improve the Diagnosis of Pleural Tuberculosis-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Use of Pleural Fluid Digital PCR Analysis to Improve the Diagnosis of Pleural Tuberculosis

Published:2022-12-21 Issue:6 Volume:10 Page:
ISSN:2165-0497
Container-title:Microbiology Spectrum
language:en
Short-container-title:Microbiol Spectr

Author:

Li Zihui¹,Sun Qi¹,Du Boping¹,Jia Hongyan¹,Dong Jing¹,Lyu Lingna¹^ORCID,Zhu Chuanzhi¹,Xing Aiying¹,Yang Xinting¹,Wei Rongrong¹,Chen Xiaoyou¹²,Zhang Zongde¹^ORCID,Pan Liping¹

Affiliation:

1. Beijing Key Laboratory for Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Research, Beijing Chest Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic Tumor Research Institute, Beijing, China

2. Beijing Ditan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Abstract

Pleural TB is one of the most frequent causes of pleural effusion, especially in areas with high burden of TB. Due to the paucibacillary nature of the disease, the diagnostic sensitivities of all available bacteriological and molecular tests remain poor.

Funder

Beijing Hospitals Authority Innovation Studio of Young Staff Funding Support

Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Cell Biology,Microbiology (medical),Genetics,General Immunology and Microbiology,Ecology,Physiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/spectrum.01632-22

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